Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue
David Cox (1783-1859), Landscape painter
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
Landscapist and water-colourist; brought up in Birmingham; began his career as a scene-painter; sketched in Wales, 1805-6; worked intermittently as a drawing-master; made regular summer sketching tours; though underrated in his own day, he has become one of the best-known and best-loved water-colourists of the English school.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.